Quote Originally Posted by j_h_smith View Post
Your passage is exactly as you think it to be. You are to preach the word of God. You are not to preach in secret but for all to see.

Now to the previoius passage.

This passage is meant to make you understand that if you preach the word of God, just for the glory of men, then you are not following the word of God. If you are looking for praise from men instead of your heavenly father, then you are not preaching the true word of God.

Both passage are easy to understand if you in fact want to understand.

Preach the word of God for God, not mankind.

Really simple if you know the word,
Jim Smith
I think its a little presumptuous of you to tell me how to interpret the bible. I can read quite well thank you and have read the bible from cover to cover. The passage doesn't say anything about preaching the word of God. There are in fact other passages that cover that quite well. I interpret "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." to mean that you should show the good works that you do to your fellow man and to glorify God. I don't need any additional interpretation by anyone thanks, its pretty clear to me what it says. As for the passage that was first brought up that comes later I will concede that it refers to your reasons for showing your good deeds to others. Non of us should presume to know the reasons of another person unless they tell us those reasons. Its ludicrous to me that a person would bring up a bible passage as a reason not to talk about the good works they have done. Are you defending that use?